Writing in his new book, Brainaissance, Dilip Mukerjea asserts that 

WE NEED NOVEL, ADAPTIVE, AGILE, THINKING TO STAY RELEVANT TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

Why this skill will be vital for workforce success 

• Today, routine tasks are easily outsourced to computers or machines. 

• A combination of increasing global connectivity and growing automation will put a premium on skills that facilitate responding swiftly and adaptively to unfamiliar circumstances, and contexts, with an array of solutions to meet and defeat the problems that rear their heads. 

• As we network everyone and everything, the impact will not be that we can do things faster, cheaper, or better; it will be that the whole system itself becomes emergent and highly unpredictable, with any change in one node creating unexpected outcomes throughout the whole constellation of networks. 

Thus, Improvisational Inventive Skills are going to be crucial in The Innovation Ecosystems of the Third Millennium.